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Amy jellicoe
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Public health and environment geek
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From the moment I learned about this planned study yesterday, it bothered my spirit so much I had to lay out just how wrong and criminal it is in writing. We know better and should do better in upholding ethics of research.💔
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How Unethical Research Seeds Medical Mistrust
The absence of equipoise can turn research into harm
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December 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.

Holy. Shit.

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December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
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December 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Donald Trump maliciously mocks the brutal murder of Michele & Rob Reiner, and Republicans don’t bat an eye. But as soon as you quote Charlie Kirk’s views, all hell breaks loose.
December 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Suck it Ottawa. What a shitty, cheap team.
December 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Faber + Hughes pairing INJECT IT INTO MY VEINS
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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One of the bleakest things about living in the UK right now is that the country is full of people who, if their community is given something nice, will just destroy it for no reason. I really don’t know how you fix that.
December 12, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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all i'm saying is that there were better options
December 12, 2025 at 5:25 AM
No one from Sweden, Norway, or Denmark would want to come to this shithole country
TRUMP: “I said why is it we only take people from shithole countries? Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden, Denmark… But we always take people from Somalia— places that are filthy, dirty, disgusting.”

Such a mystery what he means when he says this stuff, isn’t it?
December 11, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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love to get lectured on the virtues of spartanism from the guy with the gold toilets
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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One of the most disturbing things about the U.S. government getting themselves into the anti-vaccine game is that it is a time-release poison pill.

It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
December 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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“We’re going to have places where only wealthy people can live,” says Peter Kasabach, executive director of New Jersey Future. Richer residents will work around the inconvenience of coastal flooding and walk away from their houses when they feel like it — if they haven’t been able to sell.
Story for Rolling Stone about climate threats to the Jersey Shore - signals what's ahead for the East Coast: rising risks, shortage of public money to adjust, and built-in incentives to keep the status quo in place. Plus: attachment to a place full of memories. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Putting Dr Høeg in charge "is like dropping an atom bomb," an agency source said.

"Multiple top-level officials are preparing resignations."

"It's an extinction level event. She's has never supervised a drug review, never has conducted a clinical trial. She doesn't understand laws &regulations."
Even ignoring Dr. Høeg's antivaccine views and obvious bias, she has no qualifications for the job. She does not know regulations, she does not know drug approvals, and she has no expertise in any relevant scientific area.
No wonder people are resigning.
www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-tra...
Appointment of controversial FDA official rocking agency like "an atom bomb," scientists there say
The Trump administration's elevation of Dr. Tracy Beth Høeg to lead a high-profile office within the Food and Drug Administration is raising alarm among multiple senior FDA officials.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.

One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.

When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.

Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.

www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.
www.dailynebraskan.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Jesus the Vancouver Canucks are using their sticks for a staggering amount of illegal cross checks to the face of
December 7, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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My students asked me what I thought might turn the tide of vaccine sentiment in the US. I don't honestly know what will, or if any horrific outbreak or loss of life will make a difference. But my nightmare scenario looks something like this ... 1/
December 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Data shows 23% of Somali voters in Minnesota supported Trump in 2024 a 10-point increase from 2020.
Somali Trump supporters grapple with the president's words, ICE raids
Data shows 23% of Somali voters in Minnesota supported Trump in 2024 a 10-point increase from 2020.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Fuck these people
If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Breaking news: A dozen former leaders of the FDA warned that plans for a stricter approach to vaccine approvals risks undermining the nation’s ability to fight infectious diseases and could threaten the health of vulnerable Americans.
A dozen former FDA commissioners condemn plan to tighten vaccine approvals
In a New England Journal of Medicine article, the former FDA commissioners wrote they were “deeply concerned” by the top vaccine regulator’s approach to raising the bar for approvals.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Ayooo we’ve been telling you this for decades
“Get insurance companies out of it. We don’t need a middle man. They’re like the mob, taking their cut off the top.”

@RepTimBurchett unwittingly makes the case for MEDICARE FOR ALL as Republicans flail for a way to deal with skyrocketing health care costs.

(H/T @PabloReports)
December 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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. @theatlantic.com has some some of the best writers around.

But, under the guise of being moderate and nuanced, they were also perfectly happy to elevate right disinformation talking points to numb people to the risks of COVID and MAHA.

My latest.

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If The Atlantic Wishes to Honestly Understand the Origins of MAHA, They Need to Investigate The Atlantic.
The Atlantic has some of the best writers around. But they were also eager to launder right-wing talking points under the guise of a being liberal, reasonable, and moderate publication, able to see a
sciencebasedmedicine.org
November 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 AM
If I took a drink every time buccigross said “bedard” I’d be dead. So tired of these biased, shitty Chicago loving announcers. Get fucked Chicago
November 27, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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ZERO? Amazing!
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM